Repeating "Two-State Solution" Will Not Make It Happen

This isn't like chanting the name of Beetlejuice three times and he will magically appear. US Envoy George Mitchell has gone to the Middle East and once again reiterated the US position that there should be a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israel peace process.

"The US policy favors a two-state solution, which would have a Palestinian state living in peace alongside the Jewish state of Israel," Mitchell said after meeting with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Jerusalem.

Mitchell said that the two had a "good, full and candid discussion covering both the history of the peace process, going back to the 1990s, and continuing to the present, and also looking into the future on what can be done to achieve our common objectives."

Never mind that there is no peace process since the Palestinians still do not accept Israel's existence, except as using the maps to delineate targeting data for their rockets and terror attacks. Hamas seeks Israel's destruction and has not waivered one iota from that goal. Hamas attacks Fatah for collaborating with Israel because Fatah isn't nearly as violent as Hamas is in furthering its goals, but make no mistake about Fatah's intentions either.

Fatah is just as committed to Israel's destruction as Hamas is. They're just more coy about their goals.

Throw in the Hizbullah and al Qaeda and Iranians and Syrians who are all supporting the terror campaign against Israel and you will not have peace between Israel and the Palestinians since all are supporting the jihad against Israel using the Palestinians as pawns.

Palestinians and Israelis have no common objectives - Hamas seeks Israel's destruction and Israel just wants to be left alone from the Palestinians; the Gaza disengagement shows the folly of failing to address this salient fact. Allowing Hamas and the terrorists to turn Gaza into a terror-factory after Israel withdrew its military forces and removed all Jews from Gaza should have been the foundation for creating a viable and vibrant Palestinian economy. Instead, Hamas and Fatah started a civil war over control and Hamas engaged in incessant terror attacks against Israel from the very communities, farms, and greenhouses that Israel had abandoned and/or turned over to the Palestinians so as to build their economy.